godofcereal wrote:Nothing wrong with helping those who cant help themselves.

Should we really force help upon those not smart enough to use computers though. If someone doesn't know how to use a computer and yet they want to surf the web, a computer technician comes round, installs an antivirus and gives them a lecture on why not to "click here now". But i don't think people who are making the anti-worms should risk getting themselves sued - plus this anti-worm could be easily re-programmed to be an even more effective virus.

godofcereal wrote:Nothing wrong with helping those who cant help themselves.

Should we really force help upon those not smart enough to use computers though. If someone doesn't know how to use a computer and yet they want to surf the web, a computer technician comes round, installs an antivirus and gives them a lecture on why not to "click here now". But i don't think people who are making the anti-worms should risk getting themselves sued - plus this anti-worm could be easily re-programmed to be an even more effective virus.

So if I'm not smart enough to know that walking around a mine field is a bad thing, people shouldnt stop me from potentialy hurting myself?

Im off, last year of school and all, I had something longer but char limit fucked that up. So yeah, had a good run here. Thanks for the memories. Thanks to the staff and users.

godofcereal wrote:So if I'm not smart enough to know that walking around a mine field is a bad thing, people shouldnt stop me from potentialy hurting myself?

I don't really mean that people not smart enough, shouldn't use computers. They should know that they can be vulnerable and if they don't ask for help in keeping safe, you shouldn't hold yourself responsible for their safety - they should be taught how to be safe on them but i'm not running in the mine field after you to stop you from hurting yourself.

I think putting it that way I might pulled us off-topic, but to spend time breaking onto someone's computer to help them is probably the wrong way to solve the problem of computer worms.

I would use a pre-programmed anti-worm to fix someone's computer if i know the problem they are having.

I just think that since we know how to defend against the problem we should make client-side fixes to the problem's, not expect that an anti-worm should break their anti-virus, make it's way in, and help them out.Although it may look like a method that works, i don't think it should be the direction we head in to get rid of worms.- Though looking into how worms work and keeping up with their technology will help us defend against them on the anti-virus side